Re: MI: -file-list-exec-source-files

Jim Blandy
2006-06-02T19:37:28Z

Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:
> The command "-file-list-exec-source-files" often (always?) prints out each
> file twice:
>
> -file-list-exec-source-files
> ^done,files=[{file="myprog.c",fullname="/home/nickrob/myprog.c"},{file="myprint.c",fullname="/home/nickrob/myprint.c"},{file="myprint.c",fullname="/home/nickrob/myprint.c"},{file="myprog.c",fullname="/home/nickrob/myprog.c"}]
>
> Looking at the code I had hoped that one cane from the symbol table and the
> other from the partial symbol table but in fact, when I try it, they both
> come from the partial symbol table. When the program being debugged has lots
> of source files (1000's) this is very wasteful, so I would like to make this
> command just print out each file once. Before I do I'd like to ask:
>
> Why does the partial symbol table have duplicate copies?
>
> Is it safe to assume that duplicates will occur consecutively?

I think I understand why header files get duplicated, but why .c files
would, too, I don't know. If you can figure it out, let me know. (So
I certainly don't know whether they will always appear consecutively.)